PHENOMENAL AND ACCESS CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE "HARD" PROBLEM: A VIEW FROM THE DESIGNER STANCE
International Journal of Machine Consciousness June 1, 2010 Aaron Sloman 81 citations
This paper is an attempt to summarise and justify critical comments I have been making over several decades about research on consciousness by philosophers, scientists and engineers. This includes (a) explaining why the concept of “phenomenal consciousness” (P-C), in the sense defined by Ned Block, is semantically flawed and unsuitable as a target for scientific research or machine modelling,...